Advances in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia: new drugs and new challenges

NJ Short, M Konopleva, TM Kadia, G Borthakur… - Cancer discovery, 2020 - AACR
The therapeutic armamentarium of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has rapidly expanded in
the past few years, driven largely by translational research into its genomic landscape and …

Research progress on dendritic cell vaccines in cancer immunotherapy

J Yu, H Sun, W Cao, Y Song, Z Jiang - Experimental hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
Dendritic cell (DC) vaccines induce specific immune responses that can selectively
eliminate target cells. In recent years, many studies have been conducted to explore DC …

Improving outcomes in chronic myeloid leukemia through harnessing the immunological landscape

YC Hsieh, K Kirschner, M Copland - Leukemia, 2021 - nature.com
The quest for treatment-free remission (TFR) and deep molecular response (DMR) in
chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) has been profoundly impacted by tyrosine kinase inhibitors …

Dendritic cell vaccination as postremission treatment to prevent or delay relapse in acute myeloid leukemia

S Anguille, AL Van de Velde, EL Smits… - Blood, The Journal …, 2017 - ashpublications.org
Relapse is a major problem in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and adversely affects survival.
In this phase 2 study, we investigated the effect of vaccination with dendritic cells (DCs) …

Trial watch: peptide-based vaccines in anticancer therapy

L Bezu, O Kepp, G Cerrato, J Pol, J Fucikova… - …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Peptide-based anticancer vaccination aims at stimulating an immune response against one
or multiple tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) following immunization with purified …

The graft-versus-leukemia effect in AML

C Sweeney, P Vyas - Frontiers in oncology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) is the most established and
commonly used cellular immunotherapy in cancer care. It is the most potent anti-leukemic …

Phase 2 trial of a multivalent WT1 peptide vaccine (galinpepimut-S) in acute myeloid leukemia

PG Maslak, T Dao, Y Bernal, SM Chanel… - Blood …, 2018 - ashpublications.org
Abstract A National Cancer Institute consensus study on prioritization of cancer antigens
ranked the Wilms tumor 1 (WT1) protein as the top immunotherapy target in cancer. We …

Immunotherapy in acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes: The dawn of a new era?

Y Liu, JP Bewersdorf, M Stahl, AM Zeidan - Blood reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Immunotherapy has revolutionized therapy in both solid and liquid malignancies. The ability
to cure acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) with an …

Individualized vaccination of AML patients in remission is associated with induction of antileukemia immunity and prolonged remissions

J Rosenblatt, RM Stone, L Uhl, D Neuberg… - Science translational …, 2016 - science.org
We developed a personalized cancer vaccine in which patient-derived acute myeloid
leukemia (AML) cells are fused with autologous dendritic cells, generating a hybridoma that …

Cancer vaccines: Promising therapeutics or an unattainable dream

H Donninger, C Li, JW Eaton, K Yaddanapudi - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
The advent of cancer immunotherapy has revolutionized the field of cancer treatment and
offers cancer patients new hope. Although this therapy has proved highly successful for …